Kicking up my heels
Posted in art, creatures, fun, illustration, make on Aug 30th, 2007
Playing around after discovering the wonderful drawings of Jim Woodring.
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Austen graphic novels
Posted in books, illustration on Aug 6th, 2007
Liz Wong, painter and a freelance illustrator, is making a graphic novel of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It should be fun to see how it progresses. I looked around to see if there have been other Austen graphic novels, and yes there are. Anne Timmons’ Northanger Abbey is included in Gothic Classics: Graphic Classics […]
Green things
Posted in environment, illustration, video on Jul 28th, 2007
I’m taken with this lovely leaf logo which belongs to a new green blog Earth2Tech (a new part of the GigaOm blog network) which will focus on the business side of green and clean technology.
And check out the cool Power of Wind ad produced by Nordpol+ Hamburg for EPURON, a renewable energy company based in […]
Just to dig it all an’ not to wonder
Posted in art, illustration on Jun 13th, 2007
A postcard I picked up while travelling 9 years ago.
His Dark Materials illustrations
Posted in books, illustration on Jun 4th, 2007
I’ve finished reading Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials now, and I thought it was wonderful. The ideas and characters are still floating round in my head. One of the charms of the trilogy is the little little symbolic illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, drawn in pen and ink by Pullman himself. They […]
The Tale of How
Posted in animation, art, illustration, make, video on Apr 26th, 2007
The Tale of How is a beautiful and intreguing animation, a labour of love by three friends calling themselves the Blackheart Gang, who hail from Cape Town, South Africa. It’s the second part of a larger story they envisage, A Dodo Trilogy. Their ‘making of’ video introduces the makers and explains how they went about […]
Till it looked O.K.
Posted in books, illustration, video on Apr 21st, 2007
Actually, my favourite Sendak picture book is In the Night Kitchen. I love the illustration, the cityscape made from kitchen packets and utensils, the dreamlike whimsy of it, and Mickey’s confidence. Above all, I like the part where he models the dough into a plane:
What better way to describe how you go about the creative […]
Where the Wild Things Are: link dump
Posted in animation, art, books, creatures, film, illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Apr 21st, 2007
(Photo credit: wellingtonany)
Mentioning the Spike Jonze film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a few days ago reminded me that I had a bunch of WWTA/Sendak links that I collected when I was trying to scrounge information about the film. (As it happens they are keeping things very well under wraps, which is […]
Thats the way you do it!
Posted in illustration, politics, puppetry, puppets on Mar 29th, 2007
Ian Sharpe’s comment on the latest development in the travesty of justice that is David Hicks’ lot.
Happy New Year
Posted in illustration, portfolio, sculpture, theatre on Jan 1st, 2007
Happy New Year, blog friends. A new year and my 300th post!
Last night I dreamed vividly (and I mean vivid physically!) of giving birth - one of those oops-I-need-to-push, and-I’m-in-the-supermarket-and, oh-my-goodness-here-it-is! births, and then a tiny crumpled gorgeous creature cupped in my hands! (maybe because I had seen the tiny animals on fingers photos?)! You […]